For E’s 9th birthday, we decided to have a small late afternoon activity party. But we decided to start the fun early by DIYing her party favors (E said while we were making them that “this is actually fun!)

We made simple and quirky handmade notebooks:

Materials we used:

1 ream of multicolored long bond paper

2 different colored yarns

1 puncher

1 stencil puncher

2 packs of crazy eyes

Some colored pens, imagination and elbow grease!

Instructions:

1.Separate the colored papers by color

2. Get a piece per color for the notebook, fold in half, and punch some holes. Use the guide in the middle of the puncher to make sure(ish) that the holes are evenly spaced.

3. Tie the pages together with the colored yarns. We did one tie (triple knot!) per hole since the holes are odd numbered and a running stitch looked awkward.

4. Use a stencil puncher for some design. The puncher is the white object on the rightmost side of the picture and the patten can be seen on the corner of the notebook on the leftmost side.

5. Let your daughter have fun designing the notebooks and don’t forget to give them out! (The party was so much fun, we forgot to hand some of it out 😜)